Signs

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​Signs

      If my neighborhood was the whole U.S.A., and if signs were votes, Kamala Harris would have the election sewn up.
​    In my 'hood it's signs, signs, everywhere-a signs. And most of them say Harris/Walz.

       Though there are a few Trump signs scattered about, as well.

      In the loop I walk each morning I've counted seventeen signs for Harris and five for Trump.
       But then, of course, it's different once one ventures outside of one's own little neighborhood bubble, as I did last Friday, October 11, when hubby Tom and I drove from our town of Gahanna in Central Ohio to the town of Amherst in Northeastern Ohio for a really nice get-together with family members, some of whom we hadn't seen in quite a while.

       The two-and-a-half hour trip from Gahanna to Amherst was a lovely drive over country roads, 

...rolling hills,

...past bucolic farms,

...acres of fields.

...and mile after mile after mile of Trump signs.

      Along State Route 58, the main road we took, I counted - before I stopped counting - 51 signs for Trump, five for Harris, 

...and one for Jesus.

     And also one rude bumper sticker.

        I suppose all these signs serve as  a form of political self-expression and to hearten  the supporters of the candidates and issues endorsed on the signs: I like seeing mine, you like seeing yours. Also, mayhaps an abundance of visible signs gives the politically as yet unattached the idea that there's a band wagon to be jumped on.
       But I think in this case the signs I saw are underscoring a truth that we already hold to be self-evident:  Kamala Harris may win some neighborhoods like mine here and there. But Donald Trump is gonna take Ohio.